Use of Glass Ionomer Cements in Paediatric Dentistry: Clinical Cases of Application in Primary Teeth
Dental News Volume XIX, Number III, September, 2012 by Dr. Elisabeth Dursun, Dr. Lucile Goupy, Dr. Frederic Courson, Dr. Jean Pierre Attal Introduction Successful restoration is linked to various factors: the material, the practitioner and the patient (Donovan et al. 2006). The latter characterises the uniqueness of paediatric odontology. The patient's (sometimes limited) co-operation justifies the use of materials that can be easily manipulated and that are favourable to a simple protocol. Furthermore, primary teeth are distinguished from permanent teeth mainly by their anatomy and their limited time in the dental arch. Consequently, even if the practitioner has the same array of materials for permanent teeth as for primary teeth (composite resins, amalgams, compomers and glass ionomer cements (GICs)), the specificities for the restoration of primary tee th are different. After reviewing the uniqueness of primary dentition, a summary of current data in the litera...